Jasmine Bellamy has had a distinguished 25 year career in Retail Merchandising. She has driven the merchandising strategy for numerous well known retailers including Bloomingdale’s, LOFT and Gap Factory and is an expert in celebrity brands having directed the collections of Sarah Jessica Parker, Venus Williams, Adam Levine and Nicki Minaj.

Jasmine has a Bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University, a Master’s in Business Administration and a certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Fordham University.

After 25+ years of serving girls and women, including the creation of the Adolescent Leadership Program for Higher Achievers (ALPHA), Jasmine co-founded P4B for her son Ryan and the millions of boys like him.

She is a member of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., where she serves as the Program Director of her local chapter.

Jasmine is also the founder of Chocolate Chip, a family lifestyle brand.

Clyde Cole

A career educator with extensive experience with all-boys schools and programs, Clyde Cole was a co-founder of the Gonzaga Program, a Catholic middle school for boys, and REACH for Regis, a city-wide academic enrichment and leadership development program for academically gifted middle school boys, both in New York City. Mr. Cole was also the founding principal of an all-boys public school serving grades 6-12 in Brooklyn, NY, where he had double-digit student achievement gains for 3 consecutive years while maintaining an attendance rate of 90% for 5 years.

In recognition of his professional achievements, Mr. Cole was given a Leadership Development Award by the Archdiocese of New York, selected as one of the NYC Department of Education’s Very Best First-Year Principals, listed as a member of The Network Journal business magazine’s “Forty Under 40,” named Man of the Year 5 times by Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, honored as a Distinguished Alumnus of New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education, and selected for the prestigious Principal Scholar Program of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Mr. Cole has a Bachelor’s Degree from Northwestern University, a Master’s Degree from New York University, and a NYS School District Leader certificate from Bank Street Graduate School of Education. He has Panamanian and Jamaican roots and is a proud native of Brooklyn, NY.

Marcus Lane Jr.

A rising junior studying Policy and Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He is also a member of the Renée Crown University Honors Program. As an aspiring public servant, Lane’s focal academic and professional interests have been education, housing, and incarceration. In his first-year at Syracuse University, he co-founded a social justice council for high school youth and managing a youth entrepreneurial farm stand in the Southwest community of Syracuse.

He began interning at the Central New York chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) in his first-year, too. Since then, he has organized events on mass criminalization, housing segregation, and the school-to-prison pipeline on and off campus.

Lane has assisted in research efforts, raising awareness and lobbying elected officials on the aforementioned social problems and more. He also started a student chapter of the NYCLU on Syracuse University’s campus. Lane’s other student involvement include being elected as an assembly representative for Syracuse University’s undergraduate student government. As an elected official, Lane reformed the student government’s by-laws, created the Diversity and Inclusion Affairs Committee, and passed a resolution on making Syracuse University a sanctuary campus. Lane is a resident advisor and writer for The New Narrative and SU Globalist. Lastly, this past summer, Lane was one of four university students from around the United States who engaged in the prestigious Montgomery Fellowship at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.

Lane is extremely excited to work with the Partnership for Boys as an intern. He sees it as a natural extension of his previous work and himself. As a male of color, Lane has personally struggled with identity, vulnerability, and social and emotional development. He realizes that self-discovery is an arduous and ongoing process, and wishes he had engagement and support network like the one Partnership for Boys seeks to provide. As a result, he is eager to contribute to developing driven, engaging, resilient, and responsible boys and young men.

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